I have made minor visual changes in the design of my homepage, however, I
believe this prepares the work for more important changes to come.
Indeed, after my last post, I looked at what you could do with css files again
and again and I am still impressed by the flexibility css files can provide to
a website.
As for the changes in themselves, I have removed the logo and the counter
from the banner, feeling that they were not really needed after all. Above
all, they were pure images inserted in the html code, which makes them
difficult to change, unless you go to every single page and modify the code
(this is what I actually had to do this time, with a perl script though).
I have also replaced the png file for the shiromi title by a jpg picture,
which is now properly displayed by Internet Explorer. More importantly,
instead of a picture in the html code, I've made it a non-repeating background
of a div placed in the banner :)
Practically, it means that the common layout of my homepage (the frame, the banner, the background pictures, etc.) is entirely managed by this single file.
I'm currently working on a new design which will be applied everywhere at
once. You can have a glimpse of it in Shiromi's diary,
selecting the alternate StyleSheet, if your browser allows you to do so.
If you don't have such browser, I've made a special flavour
to view it.
I've used the flower from the css zen garden that I find very cool, but I'll need to find my own background picture before I use this new template.
By the way, the Complex Spiral is another demonstration of what is possible with css designing. Note that this will be truly impressive only if you use a browser that respects the standards of W3C (obviously, not IE!).
